Oklahoma history

Ninety years this week, Oklahomans were met with a large wall of rolling black dust and sand, a day now known as "Black Sunday."

More than a century after U.S. Indian boarding schools attempted to erase Indigenous cultures and languages, tribal nations in Oklahoma are working to reclaim and teach their languages to the youth.

Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now, the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.

As Oklahoma recovers from a massive wildfire outbreak in March, the governor has criticized the state Forestry Services’ response, and even mused about disbanding the division. State officials at the Forestry Services and beyond are pushing back.

A new book argues the way states perform executions is inhumane. KOSU sat down with its author to learn about the 'untold story' of lethal injection and Oklahoma’s role in how the condemned are executed.

Sand Creek Ranch was recently acquired by The Nature Conservancy to protect wildlife habitat.

Dr. Bob Blackburn has a simple message when talking about Oklahoma’s history: Oklahoma has always been a state with injustice.

The new film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon is already starting conversations about how history should be discussed and remembered in Oklahoma. The movie — set to break out in wide release this fall — could change the way people in the state talk about Oklahoma's past.

How Curious explores a momentous scientific breakthrough which took place in Oklahoma in the early 1920s and which continues to have worldwide consequences today

A little-known fact about the Sooner State: Oklahoma is home to more historically black towns than any other state. Sadly, the Great Depression devastated…